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Alzheimer's markers predict start of mental decline

(Medical Xpress)—Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have helped identify many of the biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease that could potentially predict which patients will develop the disorder ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created May 14, 2013 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

First objective measure of pain discovered in brain scan patterns

For the first time, scientists have been able to predict how much pain people are feeling by looking at images of their brains, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder.

Neuroscience created Apr 10, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The Parkinson's puzzle: Developing an assay to identify components in protein structures to aid diagnosis, treatment

As part of a new initiative to speed the search for changes in the body that can help predict, diagnose, or monitor Parkinson's disease, a research team led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory recently ...

Parkinson's & Movement disorders created Mar 26, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study finds good marriages more likely for teens of happy homes

A UT Dallas study has found that people who come from families with members who are encouraging and engaged with one another tend to have marriages with more positive outcomes later in life.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Mar 21, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Genome-wide imaging study identifies new gene associated with Alzheimer's plaques

A study combining genetic data with brain imaging, designed to identify genes associated with the amyloid plaque deposits found in Alzheimer's disease patients, has not only identified the APOE gene—long ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Feb 20, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Messi agility is all in the mind, scientists report

Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi may owe his trademark feints and body swerves to the fact his brain is busier than that of a less gifted player, according to a study into footballers' minds.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Feb 05, 2013 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

New discovery shows genetic causes of rare bone condition

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers at the University of Oxford have discovered two new genetic causes of craniosynostosis, a rare bone condition that can inhibit brain growth in children.

Genetics created Jan 29, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Implicit race bias increases the differences in the neural representations of black and white faces

Racial stereotypes have been shown to have subtle and unintended consequences on how we treat members of different race groups. According to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psyc ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jan 17, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Rainfall, brain infection linked in sub-Saharan Africa

(Medical Xpress)—The amount of rainfall affects the number of infant infections leading to hydrocephalus in Uganda, according to a team of researchers who are the first to demonstrate that these brain infections ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jan 04, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Time pressure enhances thrill of auctions, Internet auctions use this effect

Shopping is more than the rational exchange of goods against money. Emotions, however, do not only play a role when buying a red sports car or the fiftieth pair of shoes. At the stock exchange or during auctions, bidders ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jan 03, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A gene implicated in schizophrenia risk is also associated with risk for cannabis dependence

A paper by Shizhong Han and colleagues in the current issue of Biological Psychiatry implicates a new gene in the risk for cannabis dependence. This gene, NRG1, codes for the ErbB4 receptor, a protein implicated in synapt ...

Genetics created Oct 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Storm of 'awakened' transposons may cause brain-cell pathologies in ALS, other illnesses

A team of neuroscientists and informatics experts at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) reports important progress in an effort to understand the relationship between transposons – sequences of DNA that can jump around ...

Genetics created Sep 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Making sense out of the biological matrix of bipolar disorder

The more that we understand the brain, the more complex it becomes. The same can be said about the genetics and neurobiology of psychiatric disorders. For "Mendelian" disorders, like Huntington disease, mutation of a single ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Aug 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Is too much brain activity connected to Alzheimer's disease?

High baseline levels of neuronal activity in the best connected parts of the brain may play an important role in the development of Alzheimer's disease. This is the main conclusion of a new study appearing in PLoS Computational Bi ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Aug 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Data release from the Allen Institute for Brain Science expands online atlas offerings

The Allen Institute for Brain Science announced today its latest public data release, enhancing online resources available via the Allen Brain Atlas data portal and expanding its application programming interface (API). ...

Neuroscience created Jun 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0